It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence