It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.