All the Dachaus must remain standing.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

It makes the idea of in sickness and in health that much more real to see it play out in front of you.

Our destiny becomes the accumulation of the choices that we make; the choices of which paths we took in life.

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

Life was such a precious thing, easily broken.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]