And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.