The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.