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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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