That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

I’ve elected to age gracefully.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

There is so much more to understand.

The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys.

I usually head up to the mountains or out into the desert. Somewhere nobody is. There I can dig deep and find the core that got me where I am today. It's sort of like my reset button.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.