When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety.

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.