Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

Paradise is for those who make paradise.

Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one