There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

The universe does not work by our rules

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.