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

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.

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.

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

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.

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success.

There's a different kind of beauty that comes with humility and honesty

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.

Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it." "What?" He looked confused

I don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.