I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.

What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?