Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.