"Understanding the complexity of human behavior in times of catastrophe is one of the aims of the book."
"To me, in a self-governing democratic country, it’s a fundamental mistake to draw an absolute line between government and community."
"We turn to books in the hope of better understanding our selves and better engaging with the meaning of our experiences."
"'Very funny,' Chet said sourly. 'Har-de-har-har with the Hardy boys.'"
“Science fiction writers are pretty useless as fortune-tellers, but who needs fortune-tellers?"
"A pity the selfsame vehicle that spirits me away from factories of tedium should likewise serve to drag me backwards into panic"
"Periodicals that regularly featured accounts of Japanese atrocities gave negligible coverage to the genocide of the Jews."
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
