I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.