Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.

There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.

Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything went black.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do. Not. Allow. It.

I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.

I'm big-busted... I can't always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

No one really wants to be laughed at.