By The Age Of 9 Or 10,

Fools, Most Linguists. Damn All To Say In One Language, So They Learn Another And Say Damn All In That.

In Every War Zone That I've Been In, There Has Been A Reality And Then There Has Been The Public Perception Of Why The War Was Being Fought. In Every Crisis, The Issues Have Been Far More Complex Than The Public Has Been Allowed To Know.

The Greatest Threat To Mankind Comes From The Renunciation Of Individual Scruple In Favor Of Institutional Denominators. . . . Real Heroism Lies, As It Always Will, Not In Conformity Or Even Patriotism, But In Acts Of Solitary Moral Courage. Which, Come To Think Of It, Is What We Used To Admire In Our Christian Savior

When The World Is Destroyed, It Will Be Destroyed Not By Its Madmen But By The Sanity Of Its Experts And The Superior Ignorance Of Its Bureaucrats.

I've Never Been Able To Write A Book Without One Very Strong Character In My Rucksack.