All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.