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

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.