For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.