I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.