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" I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. "

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" It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. "

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

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

" Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? "

" Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be. "

" 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. "

" People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. "

" Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee. "

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

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

" Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. "

" 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. "

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

" If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. "

" This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow? "

" One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is. "

" I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. "

" 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. "

" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "

" It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day. "

" My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. "

" 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. "

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

" Science is magic that works. "