"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

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

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.