To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Extraordinary wonder and joy are woven through ordinary life. Hunt for them relentlessly.

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.

She paused. That's just my way of saying I would've killed you if you'd died.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves