And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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.
Thinking doesn’t seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
1. ‘Find a subject you care about.’ 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ”Science Fiction” and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
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.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
