The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries..

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him….

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady..

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea o….

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind..

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job..

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away..

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all..

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance..

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

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with pois….

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide….

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God..

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves..

I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK..

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas wh….

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of wa….

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my his….

People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go abs….

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a bro….

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made….