It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.

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

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.