If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.