You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.