I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

All education is self-discovery.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.