Maxim 31: Only cheaters prosper.-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

Because one dead leaves every material back, even the body, but what is taken is the soul with memories.

Be teachable.

[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.

all men are the same age.

The ballot is the only safety.

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.