The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.