Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

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.

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

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

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.

Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.

In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour!

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

All light is available light.