A youthful American voice isn’t particularly challenging – I’ve been a young American, and they’re all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

You usually don’t know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to...

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I’ve been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me – you’re doing your man diary again. So I...

It’s interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

I haven’t been drinking for years now. Something’s got to give. I don’t mind that I’m a guy that’s stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can’t buy it no one puts...

Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.

You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

I don’t even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace...

I am riding for Legacy ATV and I have quite a few new sponsors this year.

Disney’s something to be a little alarmed about. It’s not just a little theme park anymore. It’s now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

Everything’s plastic, we’re all gonna die.

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

He’s not rewarding us by talking to us. He’s talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t.

My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn’t matter, that there is some part of ourselves...

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

I must say also that it’s never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

In this Western point of view, evil and sin were negative qualities; they arose from the absence of good, not from the presence of evil.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don’t happen to think it’s an appropriate subject for an “ethic.”

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I’m not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want...

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The Law of the Sea Treaty created a supranational organization to regulate what is done with and under the international seabeds.