The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.