“There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.”

“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

“P.S. I still dunno if it's art. Go to Hell yourself. ”

“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”

“The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back.”

“It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.”

“Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.”