Eric Hoffer

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.