Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

We can all be giants in moments of peace and harmony, but to stay a giant in adversity is the true test of one’s mettle.

We can not be naive and think we can go it alone.

He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

I think it's important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.