What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.