You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?