Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... Through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.

Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.

We need rules when we are young but once they are instilled we can have sensible leeway.

The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.

Maxim 37: There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'reload.'-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.

Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.

I don't break the rules, I simply bend them in my favor.

The rule was that they never went to the same place twice.

...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them up from the strangest places, and if they appear to work once we can live a whole lifetime by them, regardless of the unhappiness and difficulty they may later bring.

Maxim 16: Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.