The Wise Needn't Ask, The Fool Asks

A Man Who Doesn't Detest A Bad Government Is A Fool. And If There Were Such A Thing As A Good Government On Earth, It Would Be A Great Joy To Serve It.

Planets Were Very Large Places, On Any Scale But That Of The Spaces In Between Them.

Owning Is Owing, Having Is Hoarding.

The Question Is Always The Same With A Dragon: Will He Talk With You Or Will He Eat You?

The Trouble Is That We Have A Bad Habit, Encouraged By Pedants And Sophisticates, Of Considering Happiness As Something Rather Stupid. Only Pain Is Intellectual, Only Evil Interesting. This Is The Treason Of The Artist: A Refusal To Admit The Banality Of Evil And The Terrible Boredom Of Pain.