I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

Ethics change with technology.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

We learn only to ask more questions.

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

those who get upset for being treated the way that they treat others, will never understand why others treat them the way that they treat others.

You care so much for that special person because it feels like that person is part of you.

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that youre trying to accomplish.

America takes credit for giving you freedom that you had anyway. It's like going to a wedding and putting your tag on somebody elses box.

The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.