Marion Zimmer Bradley

"It was a long season of mourning and there were times when I wondered if I should mourn all my life and never again be free of it; but at last I could remember without weeping, and recall the days of …"

"The horror genre—which I define as “perfectly horrible things happen to perfectly nice people for no reason at all."

"My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. She thought she had never loved him so much as at this moment, when she heard the convent door close, hard and final, and felt…"

"Lancelet said, “And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference…"

"If you can’t be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot?"

"You have the Barbarian viewpoint, I see. Radio, for instance. We use it for emergency needs. The Barbarians used to listen to keep from doing things—I know, they even had radio with pictures, and used…"

"“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know."

"Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision."