I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Much learning doth make thee mad.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.