Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

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.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.