The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.