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

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.