Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

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

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.