Isaac Asimov

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen."

"The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit."

"If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

"My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."