Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

To make certain that crime does not pay the government should take it over and try to run it.

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.