One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.