Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.