Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

I never asked to be born in the first place.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.