I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

There is no education like adversity.

I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

Be happy for no reason, like a child.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'