[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the she….

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do..

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb….

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper..

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did..

Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan..

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we ar….

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..

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll ….

To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook ….

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here..

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off..

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction..

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the pre….

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower..

Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush….

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark..

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did..

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie..