I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.