Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.