I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ?

My mother used to say about gossipers " Don't worry about people talking about you, whilst they're talking about you they are leaving some other poor innocent soul alone

The thing about being powerful is that it may be a limited edition... as the source of the power goes you go

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.