Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

The intelligent man is never bored.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer - by demonstration - would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light...

All evil is good become cancerous.