“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.”

“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.”

“A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.”

“Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.”

“Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)”

“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.”

“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.”