Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged.

Watching you has taught me that a man need not be weak to have a faith, but is made strong by it.

She was completely alone, only the distant call of a bird telling her a world existed outside of her circle of pain.

If you withhold a blessing, it will be given through others.

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.

I'd like to be more approachable, not less weird

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.