The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Parody is homage gone sour.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.