That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.

Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

Success doesn't come to procrastinators, but only to men of action

Lose yourself in the magic of love.

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.