Why can't love be a fairy tale?
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.
Politics is more difficult than physics.
What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.