“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.”

“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

“Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something that literature cannot decide. Literature recognizes rather the *reality of the levels.* ”

“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”

“That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.”

“Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...”