The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.