“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.”
“I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.”
“My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”
“Enjoy fantasy for what it is, fantastic! Not for what it might be.”
“The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.”
“I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.”