I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.
From Margaret Atwood
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Reality simply consists of different points of view.
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
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