So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

But no man's a hero to himself.