Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

I'd never been published when I was young.