The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.

You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the work done. For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.