The important thing is to be in love with something.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.