The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.