I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid. — Orson Scott Card

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.

"'Waterloo was won,'" quoted Rackham, "'on the playing fields of Eton.'"

"What the hell does that mean?" asked Carn Carby. "You never even went to Eton."

"It was an analogy," said Rackham. "If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated."