I felt, and still feel, that it is important for fantasy to have a grasp of the complexity of fact, if not of factual content. - Samuel R. Delany

We're not going to climb that in the dark, are we?" asked Iimmi.
"Better than in the light," said Urson. "This way you can't see how far you have to fall.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change."
"Is that true?"
"I don't know.

I believe art is a wholly formal enterprise, encompassing almost all the tenets that the nineteenth century spoke of as l’art pour l’art, tenets which have made twentieth century’s experimentation possible. (What postmodern doesn’t?)