I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.