My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. |
She was a wonderful poet, a good short-story writer and a fine novelist. |
Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. |
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. |
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. |
Touch a scientist and you touch a child. |
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. |
We are anthill men upon an anthill world. |
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. |
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. |
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future |
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future |
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future |
Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action |