Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does. - Isaac Asimov

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

"Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time."
"Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly."

I find it impossible to believe that there would be such unreasoning feeling against harmless people." Amaryl said bitterly, "That's because you've never had any occasion to interest yourself in such things. It can all pass right under your nose and you wouldn't smell a thing because it doesn't affect you.