Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.