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

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

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 am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?