Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.

Middle age snuffs our more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

The trouble with success is that a man may be perfectly sound on the short story but not very good about the atomic bomb. They always ask your opinion about [those] things.