I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why encourage that by keeping ….

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition..

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers..

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion..

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness..

Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing fine. And eve….

There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves….

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments..

It's the writing that teaches you..

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?.

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal w….

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine..

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die..

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one pe….

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent..

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists..

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and th….

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader..

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate..