"What a phenomenon it has been — science fiction, space fiction — exploding out of nowhere, unexpectedly of course, as…"

"This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to sudden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy ne…"

"All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is war…"

"So that this beautiful realm of hers was held in her mind extended, or lengthened: it had been finite, bounded, known…"

"War. Fighting. Men ... every man in the whole realm is in the army.... Every man in uniform ... An economy entirely g…"

"This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentifu…"

"When the festival was over, that was the end of it all. And I do not think I am being fanciful when I say that this w…"

"Anyone could clutch at a child and mark its features: "This nose is mine, and that his, and that my mother's, and tha…"

"Yet there is a mystery here and it is not one that I understand: without the sting of otherness, of — even — the vici…"

"For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars "…"