Science Fiction Is A Branch Of Children's

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

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.

Here Was A Flower (the Daisy Reflected) Strangely Like Itself And Yet Utterly Unlike Itself Too. Such A Paradox Has Often Been The Basis For The Most Impassioned Love.

All Children... Feel A Demonic Sympathy With Those Things That Cause Disorder In The Grown-up World.

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