If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.