He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.

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

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.