We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It’s what you want that counts, not what your time wants.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.
A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.
From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.
The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society – cars kill more than wars do.
Not to write, for many of us, is to die.
But no man’s a hero to himself.
I’ve been writing every day of my life for 65 years.
All isn’t well with the world.
But with the library, it’s like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there’s so much to look at and read.
Through lack of education, we’re not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.
You’ve got to love libraries. You’ve got to love books. You’ve got to love poetry. You’ve got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.
When you’re older you want to learn from other people.
Fantasies are things that can’t happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.