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By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.
New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.
So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.
And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.
Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.
That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.
An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.
Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.
In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.
the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still.
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.
I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.
Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.
Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.