The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful