If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

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

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. “Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important — but we’ve merely recognised it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.