I write to find out what I'm talking about. - Edward Albee

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

I'm really very mistrustful. I read somewhere
that science-fiction is really not fiction at all...
that you people are rearranging my genes so that everyone will be like everyone else...
I suspect we will not have much music, much painting, but we will have a civilization of sublime young men, very much like yourself. Cultures and races will vanish.
The ants will take over the world...

We proceed in this society of ours on the possibly valid but untrue assumption that the public knows what it wants — indeed, that it is given sufficient information about what is available to make such a judgment. And then we jump, irresponsibly and absurdly, to the notion that there is a valid relationship between what the public wants and what it should want.