If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.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

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

Words are worthless. How can you describe the other worlds?

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

If I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.

I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.