english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.

Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper.

With strong heart, you will survive life.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.