Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

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

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.