Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.