That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.