Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

Every seed dies before It grows.

Stability, ” insisted the Controller, “stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

Be fair, just and kind.

Be fearlessly authentic.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.