When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.