I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

It could reach up and grab the moon.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

But no man's a hero to himself.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

"Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept in school, ran errands slowly, did not pray from his heart, ignored his mother, and did not hold his family in great esteem. For all this I know I must suffer. But here in the midst of silence, at the desert's heart, where even the wind knows not my name? Must I die so young? Am I to be forgotten without having been?"