I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.