To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.