They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won’t run on. They don’t know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it’ll have to hit.
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.
I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
My business is to prevent the future.
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.
Facts are not interesting to me.
We’ve got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.
If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
My goal is to entertain myself and others.
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.
The terrible tyranny of the majority.