Whatever Creativity Is, It Is In Part

However You Envisage Your Role In Life, All You Can Do Is Perform It As Best You Can.

That's The Artist's Role - To Strike Out Always For Something New, To Break Away, To Defy, To... Grapple With The Unfamiliar.

Science Fiction Is No More Written For Scientists Than Ghost Stories Are Written For Ghosts.

The Fatal Error Of Much Science Fiction Has Been To Subscribe To An Optimism Based On The Idea That Revolution, Or A New Gimmick, Or A Bunch Of Strong Men, Or An Invasion Of Aliens, Or The Conquest Of Other Planets, Or The Annihilation Of Half The World--in Short, Pretty Nearly Anything But The Facing Up To The Integral And Irredeemable Nature Of Mankind--can Bring About Utopian Situations. It Is The Old Error Of The Externalization Of Evil.

All Over The World There Must Be Far-reaching Changes In Animal Behavior And Habitat; If Only One Could Have Another Life In Which To Chart It All... Ah, Well, That's Not A Fruitful Thing To Wish, Is It?