The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

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.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.