We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.