You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

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

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.