The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

I’m just not interested.” “Do you have ovaries?” Jacob asked. I shot him a look. “Yes.” … “Then how are you not interested.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.