One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in the...
It was a pleasure to burn.
If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.
I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.[
Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
But Clarisse’s favorite subject wasn’t herself. It was everyone else, and me. She was the first person in a good many years I’ve really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straig...
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to every...
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...
We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
My business is to prevent the future.
Breathing the finest pollen in the world, book dust, with which to develop literary allergies.Dünyanın en güzel poleni olan ve insanda edebi alerji yaratan kitap tozu (Turkish)
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.
You want to cry some more, go on ahead. I did the same last night. You, sir? God’s truth. Thinking of everything ahead. Both sides figuring the other side will just give up, and soon, and the war done...
Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build rockets at all? For fun? For adventure? Or is this the same process that sends the salmons b...
Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven't friends. Go find some.
What we do is us. Because of you. For that we came.
Tiene que haber algo en los libros cosas que no podemos imaginar para hacer que una mujer permanezca en una casa que arde. Ahí tiene que haber algo. Uno no se sacrifica por nada.
The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than du...
That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.