One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to ….

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man..

One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical….

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study gene….

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me..

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die..

The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first quest….

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience..

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing..

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene gl….

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers..

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet..

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about….

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction..

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human..

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe..

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth..

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!.