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Personal Quotes
"I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton."
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"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
"I love science fiction - always have."
"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
"Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction."
"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
"I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse."
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
"Immerse yourself into self-development, realization of potential and establishing yourself as real person and personality."
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
"Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog."
"And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too."
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."
"Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad."
"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
"You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever."
"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."
"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
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