The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.