Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.