Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.

I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.

You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.