He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.