Creatures trained in warfare are what he calls 'philosophically anti-life.' - William Tenn

Laws produce lawbreakers, Bernie, like hens produce eggs. Civilization has nothing to do with it.

Whether or not the science fiction will eventually develop a Shakespeare, I would not dare to predict. But I do claim that it is a literature produced by our times as much as Shakespeare's was by his. And its unfortunate, frequent vulgarities can well be equated with the vulgarities and plebeian absurdities of much Elizabethan writing, both reflecting the primitive vitality of the mass audience that responded to them. It is, of course, in any age, only moribund fiction that is polished to a point of antisepsis, and that will, in losing touch with its audience, “lose the name of action.” This new medium has as yet lost neither.

He knew what the score was—and from here on out, he would be acting on what he knew rather than on what others told him.