a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling, " according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?

The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]

If you are scared you die every day. If you are not scared, you die only once.

People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.