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

"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.

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.

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

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

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.

Here comes Santa Claus! Here comes Santa Claus! Right down Santa Claus Lane!

I don’t like to solve new needs, I like to solve existing needs.

One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun.

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.