“McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as we...”

“Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.”

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ”

“I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read booksand stories by bood writers. It's a hard thing to preach about. As Thelonious Monk once said abouth...”

“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you settled for.”

“Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. ...”

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

“You dont have to worry about getting the attention of others when youre good at what you do.”

“Never Give up, never surrender.”

“Several Terminal Policy readers got together to tell Raker jokes: - Raker CAN piss into the wind. - Raker donates a lot of blood to the Red Cross -- just never his own. - Superman wears Raker paj...”

“There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.”

“You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write”

“The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.”

“Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had ...”