But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

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.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

To be economical agriculture must be ecological.

Invented the #hashtag.

I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

She was only a prostitute, but she had the nicest face I ever came across.

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.

All mothers are working mothers.