Quotes About Author

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind.

you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

Marching constantly around every boy's desk was this message: I LOVE YOUR BUTT. LET ME KISS IT. —BERNARD "I didn't write that message!" Bernard shouted.

Who else but a pacifist would attack somebody as little as Wiggin?

Ain't spacetime a bitch," said Ram. "Noted," said the expendable. "Nineteen times.

H]is 'philosophy' seemed to consist of anything that would be particularly annoying to the powers that be without being so shocking that they would fire him. He got the reputation among the students as an original and a rebel without having to pay the penalty for actually being either.

If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn't seem to be the trend at the moment.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation

Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.

Bishop Peregrino smiled grimly, the way a duelist might salute a worthy opponent.

long stories in the same series (as well as a couple of stabs at mainstream stories).

I think you're too smart to write the kind of book that would please the kind of reader who would buy a book with that title.

The Hegemon was a companion piece, really, to The Hive Queen. The one book was the story of an entire species; and so was the other.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind,' Jane intoned. 'Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

that the only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

You just say what you think will hurt me and make me embarrassed to spend time with Bizzy." "I know how men think," said Mother. "And you're a man. You'd be pretty worthless as a man if you didn't think that way.

I'm not a character in one of your novels." "More's the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .