Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money.

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.