Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

Beauty is not diminished by being shared.

The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.