The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top...

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don’t necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I’m sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

What’s going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I’ll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a...

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child’s problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I’ve been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle...

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

They didn’t know anything about the candidates and things of that sort. So they needed guidance. And that league was very instrumental in directing the people in the direction to go.

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn’t. I have drawers full of...

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

I would guess that at the very least that all blogs that are affiliated with an organization are going to be edited, if they’re not already.

We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more.

We didn’t have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn’t have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out...

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the...

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe’s pajamas.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

There’s always a way – if you’re committed.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment...

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

The publication date of that book was Sept. 10, 2001. That’s why nobody’s ever heard of it. Maybe I’ll do another one in the future someday.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Louis Pasteur said, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ If you’re really engaged in the writing, you’ll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

All kinds of folk, as you can imagine, have had things to say-as you well know-over the last week and a half about what you said.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I’ve been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.