It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.