How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.