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

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life - which is fundamentally dependent on light - to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

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.