The intelligent man is never bored.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.