"Because he was a reader, a writer, and a thinker, van Vogt regarded himself as an intellectual. But if he was an inte…"

"Even the brightest star shines dimly when observed-from too far away. And human memory is notoriously unreliable. And…"

"Alfred E. van Vogt, since the appearance of his first two stories — "Black Destroyer" and "Discord in Scarlet" (Astou…"

"One night, in a fever dream, I sit up and say to the walls, "Hey, how about A. E. Van Vogt?" When I heard myself say …"

"The Golden Age of SF is universally dated from the July 1939, issue of Astounding because that's when "Black Destroye…"

"The truth of the matter seems to be that van Vogt's withdrawal into himself took place over a considerable period of …"

"Thank the goddess! What a monstrous obscenity. Thank the goddess! Vile, lecherous, lascivious witch! Wretched debauch…"

"But the possible extent of the disaster couldn’t make any difference. Way back in 1944 people had learned that lesson…"

"Religion, you see, is not in its roots adoration of a god or a goddess. Religion is fear. Religion is the spark that …"

"The weapon shops were founded more than two thousand years ago by a man who decided that the incessant struggle for p…"