I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
When we need somebody haunted we investigate. . . When we investigate we do so noisily always.
It doesn't give me displeasure to hear of a virgin being raped. The lot of women is to be fornicated.
It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.
Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding. . . . No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.
And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.
Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.