Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

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.

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.

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.

One who experiences prasantta [blissful happiness] within, he will have prasantta [blissful happiness] externally. The mind is a mirror (reflection) for the external.

i"ll always catch you when you fall." -Daniel, , torment

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

One of the big things that I focus on is not having regrets, just taking every opportunity I have and going for it.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.