Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

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

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.