Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

Don't talk about it; write.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.