All isn't well with the world.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.