Science Fiction Is A Branch Of Children's

Poets Are Regarded As Handicapped Writers Whose Work Must Be Treated With A Tender Condescension, Such As One Accords The Athletic Achievements Of Basketball Players Confined To Wheelchairs.

A Predilection For Genre Fiction Is Symptomatic Of A Kind Of Arrested Development.

But The Toaster Was Quite Satisfied With Itself, Thank You. Though It Knew From Magazines That There Were Toasters Who Could Toast Four Slices At A Time, It Didn't Think That The Master, Who Lived Alone And Seemed To Have Few Friends, Would Have Wanted A Toaster Of Such Institutional Proportions. With Toast, It's Quality That Matters, Not Quantity.

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.

Creativity Is The Ability To See Relationships Where None Exist.