小说是人类处境的伟大艺术形式。

I think it would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

真正当代的唯一方式是成为不合时宜的。

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.