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.

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.

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 gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

The only way to make your dreams a reality is to live your truth. To embrace your truth, and embrace it with love.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

You don’t have to allow the drama and events of the economy, others people’s lives, and external circumstances to limit your potential and rob you of the life you deserve.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.

But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.

The spirit should never grow old.

Truth is what the voice within tells you.

When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe.