"The sun illuminates only the eye of..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”

“The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.”

“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.”

“The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.”

“Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.”

“That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”

“When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.”

“A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with me. It is weird, though, the way women respond to my body. Maybe 50 percent respond positively right away, while another 25 or 30 percent need a while to adjust to my size and to realize that ordinarily my muscles are soft, just like anyone's, only bigger.”

“There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.”