Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Donald Trump may be running for president. He said he is sick and tired of the rest of the world laughing at the United States. Well, President Trump will certainly put an end to that.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.

I walk where I choose to walk.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey.

I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.