It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

Beware the autumn people

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?