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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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