We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.