Do you speak English? Certainly. And I understand American.
When, after a week, Jubal had had no other message, he sent a stat care of Ben's office: Whatthe hell are you doing? Ben's answer came back, somewhat delayed: Studying Martian and the rules forhopscot...
Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion
I wanted us to get out of production. Jake Schmidt, our production shop master, was a good man; nevertheless I was forever being jerked out of a warm creative fog to straighten out bugs in production—...
Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum.
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
Was no such thing as a dangerous weapon, there were only dangerous men.
Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.
You can die anyplace. They’ve never managed to regulate that.
Want to back out? Jill let out a long breath. No. I’ve always wanted a life of crime. Will you teach me gangster lingo? I want to be a credit to you.
I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attention. They can’t. No matter how hard they try parts of their minds are on something else. Missing the last...
Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah!
Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.
Acting per se, like all art, is a process of abstracting, of retaining only significant detail. But in impersonation any detail can be significant.
There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.
I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, Th...
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)
Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was a specialist in exotic biologies--the same Vargas who was on the Second Venus Expediti...
Private,' he said firmly. 'Family matter. Go have a drink.''Whose family?''A death in yours, if you insist.
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