David Quotes

Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Change is the very fabric of our time.

I find humans tremendously interesting

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

The life I'm living is the life I'm given.

I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is very plausible as someone who could sit in and be president.

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard.

Pain now is better than pain deferred.

America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero

If you're cutting deals with one company or another, eventually, there's going to be a quid pro quo. There's going to be a bribe. There's going to be something.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks.

With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking in that department.

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.

If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.