Maxim 8: Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.-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

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.