Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

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.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.