My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

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.

I really don’t get this whole oranges thing. It’s like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?

In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.