The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.

Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that people operated by, but history is full of many, many people who have gotten power by very unethical means, and people who were very ethical, who get no power, people who have the most brilliant, lovely, wonderful, nice intentions and bring about horrible things in the world because they don't know how to play the power game.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood