The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.