“It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude ...”

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

“It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.”

“This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.”

“Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.”

“The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic ter...”

“HLADES LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man he will find an easier way to do it.”

“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it i...”

“When we break 5Ms of Manufacturing Efficiency - Men, Machine, Materials, Methods & Money to personal level, the first two Ms will spell Minutes & Mind, and rest remain constant!”

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

“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat ...”

“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”