Dreams haunted The Riverworld.

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

Tomorrow changes the face of reality.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

The stars above will be below when man has Love.

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

This time should have been no different. But it was.

Creativity is inventing experimenting growing taking risks breaking rules making mistakes and having fun.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.