Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate.

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

It’s not right that some people have so much and others have so little.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.