Wars Are Begun By Frightened Men.

The Most Wounding Insult To An Educated Russian Was To Be Called Nekulturny-uncultured-yet The Same Men Who Sat In The Gilt Boxes At The Moscow State Opera Weeping At The End Of A Performance Of Boris Gudunov Could Immediately Turn Around And Order The Execution Or Imprisonment Of A Hundred Men Without Blinking. A Strange People, Made More Strange By Their Political Philosophy.

I've Made Up Stuff That's Turned Out To Be Real, That's The Spooky Part.

What The Government Is Good At Is Collecting Taxes, Taking Away Your Freedoms And Killing People. It's Not Good At Much Else.

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.

The Difference Between Me And You Is That I Do Good Fiction.