When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

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.