I don't have a strong interest in history.

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.