It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.