Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?