I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.

What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.

I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.