Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.

We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.

Styles become dated. Style doesn't.

I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.