Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.