Every writer has to write his speech.

in nonsense is strength

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

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

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.