An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low level for experienced foodies, or don’t offer enough hands-on training.

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.