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" If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. "

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" It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day. "

" The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. "

" As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. "

" I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. "

" About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. "

" Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. "

" During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school. "

" Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. "

" Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? "

" I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. "

" I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this. "

" If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. "

" Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. "

" The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. "

" Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once. "

" Never index your own book. "

" I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. "

" A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army. "

" Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. "

" Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. "

" It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. "

" Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. "

" Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. "

" Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. "

" What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law. "

" People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. "

" One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is. "

" I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. "

" I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me. "