The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.
Samuel R. DelanyLinguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
Samuel R. DelanyA sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
Samuel R. DelanyScience fiction doesnโt try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the presentโฆWe sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different
Samuel R. DelanyThe General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.
Samuel R. DelanyIt is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.
Samuel R. Delany