A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.