Science fiction has no ceiling.

Life is too short, and sometimes brutal, and in the end we have only each other... Nothing else matters.

The past is gone, and tomorrow is an illusion. There is only now.

There are so many unknowns, and so many possibilities. Sometimes there are things you can say, and talking makes it better. But sometimes, there are no words.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

We have to renegotiate our trade deals.

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.

The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.