There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.