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.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.