“If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.”

“Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

“Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.”

“Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.”

“There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.”

“You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.”“Well, didn’t you? You were there.”“No, I didn’t—no… well, maybe I did, but it didn’t feel like it.”“Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience.”“But… but—” Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express. “It denies all reasonable theories of causation. You would have me believe that causation can be completely circular. I went through because I came back from going through to persuade myself to go through. That’s silly.”“Well, didn’t you?"~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein”