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.

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

A book is a loaded gun.

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?