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

I’m at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most...

That was all very nice of them. They didn’t have to do anything because I wasn’t officially involved at all.

The hard part about questions like this is that SF covers such a broad spectrum. There are so many authors who are good at so many different things.

Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the ‘Bone’ character. It crops up a bit more in the ‘Maestro’ character.

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

I’ve always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there...

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it’s just an endless string of disasters – when, for most people in most...

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

I do write a little SF in my spare time.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a...

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of...

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don’t know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It’s what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer’s Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn’t live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you’d have to raise that to 20 million to mean anything.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

After all, one knows one’s weak points so well, that it’s rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

I am very hopeful that there will be significant political change. I would not like to put too definite a time frame with regard to political change.

I didn’t know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

It was an incredible resource. I’d sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the ‘Talk of the Town’ sections.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I’m going to turn on the lights.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World’s Indian population.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Neither Aristotle nor the Framers were known for self-indulgence. All believed that happiness is a legitimate goal in life; perhaps, one of the reasons we are here.

But look at Angola: The Chinese spent a lot of money to get in there, but they are among many other companies. It is a much bigger game.