B. R. Hayden Quotes

One of the things that made American Pie great was also the sexiness of it.

I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.

We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like “What is the significance in the world? How might this change things?

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.

We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.

The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.

And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature.

Some of the greatest miracles one could ever receive in their life are the ones that happen when their faith and action has been applied.

Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion.

I'm sure the other kids wouldn't mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.

I know what you mean. I usually take it out on my older sister. You can lease her for a weekend or something if you need a psychological punching bag. I'll even give you a discount.

In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

If we want to see real change in our world, it begins with us all on an individual basis.

Some of the greatest miracles one could ever receive in their life is the ones that happen when their faith and action has been applied.

You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same.

It’s amazing what desperation can do to a person. It can seep into the heart. Turn us into the very monsters we fight." -Vexis

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.

However smart and determined you are, your life is always going to consist of light and darkness, joy and sadness, good or bad, up and down, yang and yin.

Change is constant and always happening...The more flexible we are, the more we can benefit from life's changes that occurs.

Your faith requires your action to back it up. Choose to see what part you must participate in to see your circumstance improve and personally grow and appreciate the victory because of it.

The middle [those rough patches that come before the completion of our milestones] is only a temporal place, never settle there or cut corners to get out!

You lied to me, ” she said. “I omitted information.” He paused. “Which may be just as deplorable.

My heart do be so big, " she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it.

Live your life, it will leave you behind.

Beauty was worthIts every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending, As darkness covered the garden that is the earth.

Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe bursts in to save you. Not a bad idea.

Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe burst in to save you. Not a bad idea.

Bravery and Stupidity are the same thing, the outcome determines your label.

Peter, you're not crazy, " William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.

You can’t even stay dead like a reasonable person!” he yelled, overjoyed at the sight of his brother. “What, you didn’t miss me?

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire.

I don’t need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.