The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.