Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

We stand or fall by television.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing