Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.