Great understanding is broad and unhurried

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.

When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.