We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.