Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

Heaven would never be heaven without you.

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.