The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.