Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

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.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

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

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.