Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

Love what you do and do what you love.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?