Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

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.

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.