We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

every failure is also a victory.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.