Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.

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