A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.