He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.