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

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

My home is not a place, it is people.

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

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.