It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

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'.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.