Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enli... - Isaac Asimov
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."
"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."
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
"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."