“ Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.”

“People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.”

“The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.”

“Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.”

“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.”

“The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.”

“Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where...”

“I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.”

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

“As for me horror is the genre which makes my life more interesting, mysteries my life to be something like a riddle which people go and hard go outside...But the music build my personality!”

“Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.”

“I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”