When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

No person ever died that had a family.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

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.