Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

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’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

Digression is the soul of wit.