He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.