Hebelievesthat sciencefictionistheapocalyptic literature of the 20th century, the authentic language of Auschwitz, Eniwetok and Aldermaston.He also believes that inner space, not outer, isthe real subject of science fiction.

-Ballard,J(ames) G(raham)
  Author's statement containedin abiographical note to The Drowned World.

At its best a poem full of space and reverie.

-Baudelaire, Charles
Of portraits. Quoted in the NewYork Times,1  Jan1995.

Talis, inquiens, mihi videtur, rex, vita hominum praesens in terris, ad comparationem eius, quod nobis incertum est, temporis, quale cum te residente, ad caenam cum ducibus ac ministris tuis tempore brumale†adveniens unus passerum domum citissime, pervolaverit; qui cum per unum ostium ingrediens, mox per aliud exierit. Ipso quidem tempore, quo intus est, hiemis tempestate non tangitur, sed tamen parvissimo spatio serenitatis ad momentum excurso, mox de hieme in hiemem regrediens, tuis oculis elabitur. Ita haec vita hominum ad modicum apparet; quid autem sequatur, quidve praecesserit, prorsus ignoramus. 'Such,' he said,'O King, seems to me the present life of menon earth, incomparisonwiththattimewhichtousis uncertain, as if when on a winter's night you sit feasting with your ealdormen and thegnsöa single sparrow should flyswiftly intothehall, and coming inat one door, instantly flyoutthrough another.Inthattime inwhichit is indoorsit isindeed nottouched by thefuryofthewinter, and yet, this smallest space of calmness being passed almost in a flash, from winter going into winter again, it is lost to your eyes. Somewhat like this appears the life of man; but of what follows or what went before, we are utterly ignorant.'

-Bede known as  'theVenerable'
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis  Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People, translated byB Colgrave,1969), bk.2, ch.13.

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time Is wetter water, slimier slime!

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'Heaven'.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say '.'

-Burroughs,William S(eward)
I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER1985  The Adding Machine,'Women:  A Biological Mistake'.

This island rock in space turns flowering endlessly To peaks of cloud still mounting where you took Your last high passage and your faltering luck.

-Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero
  'Elegy for Kurt Porjescz, Missing in  Action,1  April,1945'.

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

-Cory,William originally  WilliamJohnson
  Ionica, Poems,'Mimnermus in Church'.

BRADYISM: A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in large families†symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a well-defined personal space.

-Coupland, Douglas
Generation X,'Define Normal'.

Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  The Bridge,'The River'.

Thin squeaks of radio static, The captured fume of space foams in our ears.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  The Bridge,'Cape Hatteras'.

Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  The Bridge,'Cape Hatteras'.

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert of time and space.

-Dal|¤  , Salvador
  Conquest of the Irrational.

An artist who has travelled on a steam train, driven an automobile,or flowninanairplanedoesn'tfeelthesame way about form and space as one who has not.

-Davis, Stuart
  'Is There a Revolution in the  Arts?', in Bulletin of  America's Town Meeting of the Air, vol.5, no.19 (19 Feb).

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

-Democritus
Diogenes Laertius, vol.9.

Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if therandomelement decreasesthearrow pointstowards the past† I shall usethe phrase'time's arrow'to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

-Eddington, SirArthur Stanley
  The Nature of the Physical World, ch.4. Martin  Amis used the phrase'Time's  Arrow' for the title of his1991novel.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

-Gagarin,Yuri A(lekseyevich)
  In the NewYork Times,14  Apr.

A golfcourse isthe epitome of all that ispurely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quicklyas possible.

-Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and darköa shining space With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  'Sick Love'.

To say nothing is out here isincorrect; tosay the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stoneand earth is closer to the truth.

-Heat-Moon,William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon
  Blue Highways:  A  Journey Into  America.

   Space isn't remote at all. It's onlyan hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

-Hoyle, Sir Fred
  Quoted in the Observer,'Sayings of the Week', 9 Sep.