On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. "I thought I heard something.""Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.

When we deal with the name and reputation of another we deal with something sacred in the sight of the Lord.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.