Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drink…

- H. Beam Piper

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

- H. Beam Piper

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politici…

- H. Beam Piper

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

- H. Beam Piper

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

- H. Beam Piper

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

- H. Beam Piper

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

- H. Beam Piper

And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.

- H. Beam Piper

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

- H. Beam Piper