“Being safe is fiction.”
“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”
“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”
“what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art”
“Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.”
“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”