I don't keep a Bucket List. I'm open to anything.

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

Personally speaking, when everything is boiled down to the marrow, I think the reason Reddit tolerates the creepy forums has to do with money more than anything else.

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

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