You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.