Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

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

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

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

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.