There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

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

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.