I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.
From Kurt Vonnegut
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
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.
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
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