We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.