The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.