Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.