Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.