One must work with time and not against it.

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

Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.