I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.