We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Dean StanleyHarry Potter: [to Dumbledore] LOOK AT ME!... What's happening to me?
Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixLestat: Your body's dying. Pay no attention, it happens to us all.
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire ChroniclesRoz: None of this ever happened, gentlemen. And I don't want to see any paperwork on it.
Monsters, Inc.Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
Margaret AtwoodScience fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Rudy Rucker