I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

The more you get lost in love, the more love you will find to enjoy and appreciate.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.