Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn.

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

You should empower the creativity of others.

If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.

Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

Love is not what you say; love is what you do

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.