Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.