“History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.”

“Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.”

“What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.”

“He showed the world what can be done against the odds, against a superpower. He showed -- and this is where Vietnam and Iraq come in, that in a war between an imperialist occupier and the people who actually live there, the people will eventually prevail. They know the terrain. They have more at stake. They have nowhere else to go.”

“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.”

“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”

“That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.”