Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.