I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

People can be tough as hell. They can go through some really heavy stuff... with a genuine smile...

The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal with it. grow.

I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.

Bloggers now have no concept. They are given things; they put them on, take pictures, and then just disappear from sight. Who cares?

No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

I've always been cool, basically. I was cool in utero.

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.