Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Beware the autumn people

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.