Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.