I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

Cultivating daily calm, even for a few minutes, yields a core of centered wellness.

Religion is a culture of faith science is a culture of doubt.

The Diary of a Young Girl - This book fills you with sadness. I like this book

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.