There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

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

Responsibility cannot be shared.

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.