The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

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.

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

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.

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

There's the kind of people like me, who spent years in India, have learned Sanskrit, have done this work deeply - they probably say for lifetimes - now interfacing [with the mainstream].

Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.

When speed gets in the blood, one must drive to live.