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

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.

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.

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.

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

One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.

And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.

I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.

We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.