General Sayings

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Don't try to understand it. Just accept it. Or reject it. But don't try to understand it.

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.

I mean, how many books does one have to write before one is allowed to be a little bit boring?

Don't tell me you're a writer. Just write.

The most improper things are always done in the most proper places.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

How can we expect a man to be as good as his word when he has no good word in him?

Fame, the evil, than which no other evil is swifter.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

I’ve been trying for some time to make people realize that America is not an innocent country.

Dat's what makes a man and a woman. You can't have one without the other.

The butterfly is a dancing flower. The flower a tethered butterfly.

We are born astride of a grave, and a hellish light it is.

The fog is so thick that you can't see the end of your nose. It's really too much! I'm completely disheartened.