"There they go, off to Venus, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which…"

"The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald…"

"Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off."

"Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people."

"My first decision about a career was at eleven, to be a and travel the world with my . My second decision was at twel…"

"All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold…"

"Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers."

"All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn."

"YOUR INFLUENCE ON US ALL, FROM 1939 ON, CANNOT BE MEASURED. I CAN ONLY SAY I REMEMBER, WARMLY, YOUR MANY KINDNESSES T…"

"I just can’t imagine being in a world and not being fascinated with what ideas are doing to us."