Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

You must endeavor to seem interested in the conversations of others

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.