The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.