Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enli... - Isaac Asimov

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

"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."

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

"What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for."