And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.

Where true dignity and real freedom are undermined, real self least exists!

There is no more hateful person than a Christian who thinks you’ve got your theology wrong.

A family is one of nature's solubles

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital.

So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.

Redemption is never where you expect to find it.