I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

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.

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

Working because you want to is the best sort of play.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

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