Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.

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.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

The fans, and now most of the crowd, are interested in this event.

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press

I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.

What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.

I have actually gotten to like fear.

Obama doesn't want to be called the deporter-in-chief.

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.