Michael Walkerjohn Quotes

e. e. cummings Quotes. A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

'An oasis in the heart of Bangkok'

Everything should be as Simple as possible, but not simpler.

'I come to cleanse the American flag, not burn it.'

'That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.'

'Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standard-ism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.'

''I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.''

'There is no way to peace. Peace is the way'

'The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson'

'We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.'