What man has done, man can aspire to do.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.