In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

There’s no abiding success without commitment.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

They just didn’t have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn’t necessary.

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans...

I suspect that writer’s block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn’t been a problem.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

The worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people’s faces.

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

I don’t know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Well, I’m Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot...

To be or not to be isn’t the question. The question is how to prolong being.

We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of...

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

We’re uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It’s classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who’ve happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a...

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But...

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

My father was a major SF fan in the ’40s and ’50s, so the house was full of SF books. That’s where I got my start and I never looked back.

I’m delighted. I don’t know if he is, but I’m delighted to welcome him back to the show, this time here in person in our studios in L.A.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn’t deny it and doesn’t try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

When we go into an industry, we go all the way.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction – namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

I didn’t view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Having chosen to set the book during this period, from the first day I was writing, I knew I was going to have to do something about World War Two.

There’s nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where...

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.