Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin.

Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

These things happen.

Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.