Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)