With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?

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

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.