“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.”

“We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.”

“Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into memories in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by adorning it with the right to become memorable, to be placed in a library of memories.”

“For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.”

“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.”

“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”