It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

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.

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

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

True happiness lies within you.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place

By the way, I love you.” “That’s why we're here.