Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

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

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.