I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

They're the ones inside a soap bubble. Not me.

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.

The covetous man is ever in want.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Share love. Share time. Share friendship. Just share. Put some love into everything you do.