There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination.

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

I'm drunk when it comes to clothes.

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

That's not writing, that's typing