A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

The love for literature is a great light.

No one can stop you from shinning if you are standing in your own light.

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.

Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.