There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.