The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!

If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

Nothing is always absolutely so

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.