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

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

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