[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers