The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.