Stupidity is always a capital crime.

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 sapphire depthof my own love...startlesand warmsand wounds my soul.

Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

Randy Orton is dangerous and that man is delusional!

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

There is nothing more rewarding than taking care of yourself!

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.