Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

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.

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

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.

Shine like the sun in darkness.

There is only one you.And there will never be another one.Thats your power

your problem is that wanna better word for world

High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.

Either the Baby Boomers are not going to have the retirement life that they expect or taxpayers are going to be hit with a tremendously huge bill. Or both.

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.