A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.