“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Prophecy is a poetry of change, social, political, moral, spiritual. It was with the prophetic model in mind that Shelley wrote of poets as the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.”

“In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.”

“Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.”

“To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.”