I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

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

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.