John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

We are all riding on the same bus.

Tell me something I can dance to.

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.

Every child is your child.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.

I'm a very spiritual person and proud of my Mormon roots.

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.