When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.