How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.

Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

No person ever died that had a family.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.