If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Ever since I could remember, She was all that mattered.

She had been his talisman, his cure for the insecurities and worries that he knew deep down didn't really matter, but somehow had always managed to get the best of him.

Joy increases as you give it and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

I've got five months of aggression saved up, and I'll try and use that in a positive manner. I'll be aggressive, but in a controlled way.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.

Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.