Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.