“To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.”

“Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because theyre aware of it. I choose the second group.”

“Myths grew from the ancient tradition of passing on knowledge orally, the only means of doing so before writing.Theyre narratives of human existence. They helped our ancestors interpret reality, so...”

“Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.”

“Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.”

“Paranormal phenomena are only acollection of abilities that challenge known science.Physical lawsdont explained them. You have to go beyond the limits of traditionalcategories to make any sense of ...”

“If we can become still and open-minded we might all feel that unseen hand on our shoulder, letting us know we are not alone.”

“If we an become still and open-minded, we might all feel the unseen comforting hand on our shoulder letting us know we are not alone.”

“It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”