Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?
Poul AndersonA fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.
Poul AndersonI think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating.
Poul AndersonColonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.
Poul Anderson