Almost nobody's competent, Paul. It's enough to make you cry to see how bad most people are at their jobs. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist …

'Things don't stay the way they are,' said Finnerty. 'It's too entertaining to try to change them.'

A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

I was thinking in the cab on the way here that when I did press for the original production it felt like this was what I've always dreamt of - to be talking ab…