Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

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.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.