[science Fiction Is] A Mode Of Romance

Every Human Society Possesses A Mythology Which Is Inherited, Transmitted And Diversified By Literature.

Poetry Is The Most Direct And Simple Means Of Expressing Oneself In Words: The Most Primitive Nations Have Poetry, But Only Quitewell Developed Civilizations Can Produce Good Prose. So Don't Think Of Poetry As A Perverse And Unnatural Way Of Distorting Ordinary Prose Statements: Prose Is A Much Less Natural Way Of Speaking Than Poetry Is. If You Listen To Small Children, And To The Amount Of Chanting And Singsong In Their Speech, You'll See What I Mean.

Most Of My Writing Consists Of An Attempt To Translate Aphorisms Into Continuous Prose.

Writers Don't Seem To Benefit Much By The Advance Of Science, Although They Thrive On Superstitions Of All Kinds.

The Human Landscape Of The New World Shows A Conquest Of Nature By An Intelligence That Does Not Love It.