I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

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

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!