I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.

I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, in some perverse mood; but if he escapes from his early influences altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write.

SIRTF will be following the Earth around the sun, kind of like a faithful puppy dog.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind