“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”

Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.

I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm.

The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

Be where your enemy is not.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.