It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.

Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.

Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.

God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.~Ecclesiastes 3:17

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.