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— Elmer Davis"All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost."
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
— George Santayana
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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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