There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

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