Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but ‘That’s funny...’
And what would humans be without love? RARE, said Death.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.