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.

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.

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.

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.

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

...After hardship, God will bring ease.

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.