““Can I drive you down to your house?”
The man flicked an expressive glance along the car’s length and shook his head. “Thanks. I’ll walk. There’s still a law of averages.”
And you can take that phrase and carve it on Humanity’s headstone, Fay thought bitterly, but did not reply.”
The End of Summer, p. 14 (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, November 1954)
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
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“You better hope that I never see you walking down the street while I’m driving my car! (Tory)”
Source: Acheron
“Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.”
NetWorker, November/December 1996
Commenting on the gestures vs. speech debate in computing.

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 418
On his writing style
Interview in Writers at Work (1988)
Variant: Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Source: Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews