Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work – that’s Prince to me.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

History should be written as philosophy.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.