“Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.”
“We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.”
“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”
“It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.”
“We should hang one of those reporter bastards every week. They're more help to the enemy than spies.""They'd make poor spies, They get everything wrong" General Grant and General Sherman”
“If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.”