i find nothing more depressing than optimism. Author: Paul Fussell Copy Quote More from Paul Fussell “If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in pe…” “Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constit…” “The day after the British entered the war Henry James wrote a friend:The plunge…” “Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.”