Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.