mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Insanity is contagious.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Rise above principal and do what's right.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.