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