You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

Write what you love and love what you write.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

All of my writing is God-given.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.