“I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. 'I do not read management or economics.'(from an interview in the Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 1993)”
“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.”
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”
“I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.”