It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.