No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.