There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

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

I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why encourage that by keeping the old labels with their ready-made history of millennial hate?

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

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.