Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.

Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.