Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life - which is fundamentally dependent on light - to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.