Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.