Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.