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

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

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

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.