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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

" Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. "

" 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. "

" As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. "

" I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. "

" 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. "

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

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

" This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. "

" All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. "

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

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