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

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead