The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.