It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.