I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.