The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations, ' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.

I miss being a student, " said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story, ' said Ferguson.

Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love.

Not a day goes by, without thinking, that books are our future, not technology.

I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

I really like older British guys - I don't think any of them would ever have a problem with crying in front of a woman or saying "I love you" or "You hurt me" or emotional stuff like that.

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.