"The reader has by now probably become accustomed to the reversals of fortune so common in astronomy."

"I've been keeping a diary since I was about 11. If you don't keep a diary everything washes away. And you can live everything three times: you live it when you live it, you live it when you write it d…"

"I think What Dreams May Come is the most important book I’ve written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death — the finest tribute any writer could receive. … Somewhere In Time i…"

"The young men listen dutifully, for the most part, and from time to time some of them even take the trouble to go over to the college library, and dig up one or another of his novels, and crouch there…"

"In and of itself, the market is not, and must not become, the place where the strong subdue the weak."