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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. "

" I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. "

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

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

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

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

" I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. "

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

" I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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