Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

Love is a negative form of hatred.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.