It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.

To create a word is simple. But to create a world – to think – that’s hard.

I am not alone, in my aloneness.

As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew.

Distrust interested advice.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

I liked that Larry King didn't know who Minerva was.

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."

The Doctor...is embarrassingly human for an alien.

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.