A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.