The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Specialization is for insects.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

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