Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

An armed society is a polite society.

Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.