I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.