All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil.

The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.

If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.

Farewell to thee! but not farewellTo all my fondest thoughts of thee:Within my heart they still shall dwell

Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered."Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.