A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Honor does not have to be defended.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

We remember though all the firelit glowOf a great hearth's gleam and glare, And we looked for a space at each happy faceAnd the love that was written there.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day.

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.