Occupation: Writer Birth: August 22, 1920 Death: June 5, 2012
If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put as….
MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, ….
Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, meas….
I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down..
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem sol….
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs..
It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. Yo….
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience..
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed t….
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all..
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? Peop….
Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter wha….
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes….
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again..
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and s….
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you..
Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun..
But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes.
The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But th….
And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share ….
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill..