But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?

So few grow, because so few study.

I hope I have important things to say.

One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.