Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created…

As for science and religion, the known and admitted facts are few and plain enough. All that the parsons say is unproved. All that the doctors say is disproved…

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in…

One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough ac…