It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.