Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.

I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern.