Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!

Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.