The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.