No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.