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

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" I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive. "

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

" 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 asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. "

" 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. "

" Never index your own book. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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