"I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened instead i…"

"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex."

"The greatest joy you can have is to know that you're loved."

"I don't know what it is about the human race, but we're always looking for trouble."

"To understand the man, you have to understand what he wanted. And what he wanted was always the same: to be a writer."