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.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.