I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.