“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an...”

“Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder...”

“There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.”

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”

“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”

“I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.”