You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

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

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.