My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life. I have a complete collection of all the "Buck Rogers" Sunday funnies and daily paper strips, I have all of "Prince Valiant" put away, all of "Tarzan," which appeared in the Sunday funnies in 1932 right on up through high school. So I've learned a lot from reading comics as a child.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.