The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.