I don't know anything anymore

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

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.

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going. Sometimes I even go to Fun parks and ride in the jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don't care as long as they're insured. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy. Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Or I listen at soda fountains, and do you know what? People don't talk about anything.