...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.