Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Abolish these categories of pain(or is it love)Let it all be one painPain swallows itself, dies like a star.

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.

America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.

Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?