The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Our souls sparkle brightly with creative energy, our beings are as complex as the universe, and at the same time we help make up a higher body of energy.

Before dance came into my life, I don't really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.

No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

Love is the highest form of intelligence we can experience.

I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.