We're here on Earth to fart around.

It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life..

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive..

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action..

Make love when you can. It's good for you..

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits w….

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevel….

The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, ….

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation..

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable..

That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and ….

Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this….

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water..

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military sign….

People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two wo….

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war..

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive..

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is..

People who were so good. There were angels..

... uncritical love is the only real treasure..

We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped ….