Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

Boldness in itself is genius.