Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

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