I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.