Genius Is An Infinite Capacity For Pain.

The Forest Stretched On Seemingly Forever With The Most Monotonous Predictability, Each Tree Just Like The Next - Trunk, Branches, Leaves; Trunk, Branches, Leaves. Of Course A Tree Would Have Taken A Different View Of The Matter. We All Tend To See The Way Others Are Alike And How We Differ, And It's Probably Just As Well We Do, Since That Prevents A Great Deal Of Confusion. But Perhaps We Should Remind Ourselves From Time To Time That Ours Is A Very Partial View, And That The World Is Full Of A Great Deal More Variety Than We Ever Manage To Take In.

America Is A Nation Of Liars, And For That Reason Science Fiction Has A Special Claim To Be Our National Literature, As The Art Form Best Adapted To Telling The Lies We Like To Hear And To Pretend We Believe.

Sometimes The Whole World Is Mud Luscious And Puddle Wonderful

The Gods, After All, Are Only Human, And Once Their Rage Has Been Placated They Are Perfectly Capable Of Acts Of Mercy And Grace.

The Distances Between The Stars Seem Brief By Contrast To The Distances Between Each Of Us And His Fellows.