The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.