Quotes from book

Holidays in Hell

“What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.”

“It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.”

“Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.”

“The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.”

“There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts— the country has shortages of practically everything.”

“I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.”

“Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.”

“Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.”

“The most extraordinary change in Moscow was Arbat Street, the USSR's first pedestrian mall. Of course, there's something a little sad about a pedestrian mall in a nation where few people own cars— the whole damn country's a pedestrian mall.”