The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.