It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

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.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]