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" I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. "

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" People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. "

" If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. "

" People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. "

" I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station. "

" To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. "

" Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive. "

" During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school. "

" Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. "

" Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once. "

" Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. "

" I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished. "

" The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. "

" One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. "

" There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. "

" I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people. "

" When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them. "

" I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me. "

" About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. "

" It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. "

" Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. "

" I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours. "

" I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. "

" Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. "

" A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army. "

" The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. "

" Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. "

" I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. "

" When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed. "

" Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do. "

" Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. "