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

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

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