We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.