One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim