Benjamin Jancewicz

“When the opportunity was at your hand, you did not dare to seize it. When the opportunity was lost, it became precious.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

“Destroy the culture-pattern in which people lived, and often the shock was too great for the individuals. Take away family and job, friends and church, all customary amusements and routines, hope too—and life became walking death.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

“At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what "everyone" is saying, doing thinking - whoever "everyone" happens to be this year.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and other Stories

“It’s better,” he thought in words, remembering some bit of reading, “to have no opinion of God at all than to have one that is unworthy of Him.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides