A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.