...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.