Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

Better naive and fearless than smart and anxious.

Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

One of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.