We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day. JIM: I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.