There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.

If you dance daily, you will find strength within thy soul.

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

I'm just so extremely lucky to have amazing Enchancers and all people around me.

By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.

Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.