They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.

She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.

I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.

No one here is embarrassed of their gift.

Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully."We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it.

Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

One simple thought can change the world

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn’t mean that’s what you had to be.