I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.