Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

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

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.