Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chief...
One time, as a child in a power failure, his mother had found and lit a last candle and there had been a brief hour of rediscovery, of such illumination that space lost its vast dimensions and drew co...
It was September.
That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve got nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.
Ray Bradbury’s definition of a book is at the end, when he points out that we should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.) —N...
The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. May I ask you a question?Yes.Have you ever thought you were Christ?I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to...
It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't so much wilderness around you couldn't see the town. But on the other hand there wasn't...
It was all a mistake, he pleaded, standing out of his ship, his wife slumped behind him in the deeps of the hold, like a dead woman. I came to Mars like any honest enterprising businessman. I took som...
Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk.
Para el norteamericano común, lo que es raro no es bueno.
The blows of his heart might jar him loose, crash him down, but he was glad to hear them, know himself alive.
The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to look the other way. In
The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam....
I’m never going to own anything can hurt me.
I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone.
Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not opt...
It’s the Lord’s space and the Lord’s worlds in space, Father. We must not try to take our cathedrals with us, when all we need is an overnight case.
It's just...It's just, if I didn't see these windows until today, what else did I miss?
It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not.
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