Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.