What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.