“I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!”

“The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.”

“She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.”

“Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.”

“You're on tenth base, I can't find you.”

“I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?”

“If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me where the questions are, where problems need solutions. (Alfred Gillette)”