There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.
Samuel R. DelanyScience fiction isnโt just thinking about the world out there. Itโs also thinking about how that world might beโa particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if theyโre going to change the world we live in, theyโand all of usโhave to be able to think about a world that works differently.
Samuel R. DelanyA sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
Samuel R. Delany