The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.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

We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment.

My existence is enough gift of grace.

You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.