Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.