If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

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.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.