There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

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.

Don’t expect the world to dish you your wishes, go out and serve yourself.

Our reaction does not cancel the meaning of their existence because every creation serves a definite purpose

Prayer is much like sending up a flare. You see it Bright and up there and you know why its there. Your just waiting for signs it was heard

Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil…is himself.

I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

George W. Bush was great on the belief that America was the solution to the world's problems, not the problem, and was a great defender, believer.