Obviously it could be, because it was.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.