We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I w….

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge..

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you a….

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other peopl….

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow..

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, I….

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person..

Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it..

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about p….

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane..

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon..

When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What ….

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ….

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world..

A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little ….

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed..

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt..

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the book….

It could reach up and grab the moon..

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces..

I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow,….