“Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.”

“Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.”

“For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality”

“It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.”

“The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.”

“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.”