Leonida Monaco

“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.”
― Isaac Asimov

“It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them.
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We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

“Niente mi ha mai tediato così a fondo nella vita quanto avere vent’anni.”
― Sara Zelda Mazzini, Nichi arriva con il buio