It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.