“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.”

“Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. Its packaged. We dont live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.”

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

“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 ...”

“We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I see...”

“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is ...”

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

“A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”