Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.