I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.