Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the...

Das Reich der Zwei, the nation of two my Helga and I had-its territory, the territory we defended so jealously, didn't go much beyond the bounds of our great double bed. Flat, tufted, springy little...

I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.

Be warned: If you allow yourself to see dignity in someone, you have doomed yourself to wanting to understand and help whoever it is."If you see dignity in anything, in fact--it doesn't have to be...

I spoke one time at the Library of Congress, in 1972, or so. A man stood up in the middle of the audience, when I was about halfway through, and he said, "What right have you, as leader of America's...

The therapist, after a deeply upsetting investigation of normality at this time and place, was bound to conclude that a normal person, functioning well on the upper levels of a prosperous,...

That is kind of like what I do, she said. She was demure about what she did. What she did was make people comfortable while she killed them.

Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout.

What makes so many Americans proud of their ignorance? They act as though their ignorance somehow made them charming.

I can only reply that the secret to success in every human endeavor is total concentration. Ask any great athlete.

You know what the trouble is with New York? she asked me. No, I said. Nobody here, she said, believes that there is such a thing as innocence.

How many years have passed before we realized that the meaning of human life - no matter who controls the person - is only to love those who are next to you, who need your love.

I AM A VICTIM OF A CHAIN ​​OF ACCIDENTS, LIKE ALL OF US.

Uncle, all fools have one problem - due to their extreme stupidity, they don’t even imagine that there is such a thing as common sense in the world.

As I drove my spaceship into the chrono-synclastic infundibulum, I was instantly struck by the realization that everything that has ever been will be forever. and everything that will be has existed...

think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago.

After all that men have done to the women and children and every other defenseless thing on this planet, it is time that not just every painting, but every piece of music, every statue, every play,...

Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are...