The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

I really believe amendment " to make English our common and unifying language" is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.