“I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.”
“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”
“But as I listened to my various mentors argue away the afternoon, I finally caught on to the basic point of it all. With chocolate, there are no straight answers. There are only strongly held opinions.”
“I never put real people into my fiction -- I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing utterly subservient slave-people, whose every detail of appearance and behavior I can bend to serve my theme and plot.”
“People have argued about God and government for centuries, and still they don't agree. But science, confronts opinion with facts.”
“You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.”