... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.