When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me."Look what happens withA love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.

Men have healed me. Men have wounded me. One man healed me by wounding me.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!