Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.