I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

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.