I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

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.

The shift in thought frequency of a single individual has enough energy to light up the world’s lighthouses—we hold that much power within us.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.