I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

I will never lie again.

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.