"To let the reader complete the symmetry between words and do no more than suggest it."

"No mathematician can give any meaning to language about matter, force, inertia, used in text-books of mecha…"

"To me, the Bible is a book. Important, no doubt, but a book."

"A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books."

"The ways in which these economic processes, largely originating in the US, have, in short order, flowed aro…"

"At first he said that he wouldn't do Threads, but then he thought about it and thought, "Well, I'd rather n…"

"From the start, the prose in my Hank books copied the storytelling techniques of ranchers and cowboys, whic…"