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

In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

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.