A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

If it's not a hit, switch.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.

I am someone who likes to stay positive.