The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

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

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.