I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us, ' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

You can't get what you want, if the intentions are solely directed for self-benefits.

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Others can measure their visions by what we see.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.