Frederik Pohl

I don’t think you know what it’s like to have someone head over heels in love with you. What’s the good of a man who’s upside down?

Don Kayman was too good a scientist to confuse his hopes with observations. He would report what he found. But he knew what he wanted to find.

Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales. Decrease of IQ was always good news to us. Less brains, more sales.

‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time—’

That’s the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down.