Reading to small children is a specialty.

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

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.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.