[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.