Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.