The Job Of A Storyteller Is To

I Think The Bottom Line Is That If You Get Through A Childhood Like Mine, It's Not At All Bad. Obviously, You Come Out A Pretty Tough Turkey, And You Have Had All The Inoculations You Need To Keep You On A Level Keel For The Rest Of Your Life. The Sad Part Is, Most Of Us Don't Come Out.

I Was Brought Up In The Great Tradition Of The Late Nineteenth Century: That A Writer Never Complains, Never Explains And Never Disdains.

We Should Be Most Careful About Retreating From The Specific Challenge Of Our Age. We Should Be Reluctant To Turn Our Back Upon The Frontier Of This Epoch... We Cannot Be Indifferent To Space, Because The Grand Slow March Of Our Intelligence Has Brought Us, In Our Generation, To A Point From Which We Can Explore And Understand And Utilize It. To Turn Back Now Would Be To Deny Our History, Our Capabilities.

We Are Never Prepared For What We Expect.

Every Animal That Walks The Earth, Or Swims, Or Flies Is Precious Beyond Description, Something So Rare And Wonderful That It Equals The Stars Or The Ocean Or The Mind Of Man.