We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.