Heaven is a house with porch lights.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

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.