When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.