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Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
I’m alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder
There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.
The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
I don't quite comprehend what Kim Kardashian is, where she came from, or why we talk about her.
If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it.
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.
It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
There are bad preppies and bad priests and bad humanitarians. Any group can have its bad apple.
Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.
Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'