In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

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.

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 gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

If you follow your heart, you know true happiness.

When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.