Who said “Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”?

“If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”

“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”

“Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.”

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”

“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”

“Laughter is by definition healthy.”

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.”

“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”