Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

Beware the autumn people