Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Love your country, but never trust its government.