What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.

A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.

True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. Ive been asked for autographs while Ive been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

I'm not really interested in anyone's record or anyone - I'm always fighting with myself. I always try to do my best.