According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.