The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.