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" 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. "

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" I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this. "

" There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord. "

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" I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it. "

" Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. "

" I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. "

" 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 need good lies. There are too many bad ones. "

" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. "

" That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time. "

" Science is magic that works. "

" All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. "

" Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. "

" 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 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. "

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

" If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. "

" New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. "

" It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. "

" There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. "

" The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. "

" 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. "

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

" We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. "

" I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. "

" 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. "