Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.