Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.

I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.