We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.