I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.

That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore

That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore.

And if you can't trust an ancient talking tree, what was the point of having one?

Power doesn't equal worth. Wisdom is a far greater virtue.

When the dead betray the living, the victims are memories.--The Book of Brin

That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.--The Book of Brin

I'm scared of the geese. When I was five, my mom took me down there to feed those horrible beasts and one of them nearly took my hand off.

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing to be avoided, it produces injuries.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.