The early worm deserves the bird.

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

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Never insult anyone by accident.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.