Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
Good to evil seems evil
My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.