Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.