The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

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!

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.