If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

You don't fight to protect warships or old men. Like the book says, you fight to save your civilization. And so often it seems that civilization is composed mainly of the things women and children want.

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.