From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

All education is self-discovery.

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.