Any damn fool can predict the past.

Ethics change with technology.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

We learn only to ask more questions.

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

Is that a stake, Bones, or are you just happy with my new dress?”“In this case, it’s a stake. You could always feel around for something more, though. See what comes up.

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

Independence is like a flower that nurtures itself in the light of another.

There must be thousands of ways to judge a person but only reason not, to know him better.

Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.

Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.

Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?