When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.