Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.