The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

The poacher's murderer was a man after Archer's own heart, for Archer also didn't like men to hurt Fire or make her acquaintance.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

And people is the most important part of my job. I spend one third of my time on people.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.