The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

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.

No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.