I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. – Kurt Vonnegut
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! – Robert Musil
