“No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence.-General Wedge Antilles”

“Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want.""We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to.""Thanks."Wedge & Tycho”

“The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?”

“I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.”

“But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.”

“[...] But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of actions. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.”