There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

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

Escape is a consumer goods like another

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!