You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

Ralph Waldo Pickle Chips! I don’t know him.

El tiempo es como el mercurio: aunque intentes dividirlo en partes más pequeñas, se reconstituye al instante, de nuevo entero sin forma. Los hombres lo han domesticado, lo han encadenado a sus relojes y cronómetros,...

It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.

If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer … I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and...

We are gathered here to send our gratitude to Pinnacle Officer Wilcoxand FERTS, for our daily provision and protection from those who would seek to strike against our Vassals, our Fighters and our Internees.

I know about your happy little illusion, that you never call your wife by name, that you take amphetamines just to give yourself that kick in the ass that reminds you that you’re not a...

I don’t care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won’t get you out of this school.

Quite a few soldiers . . . had ended up spending some time wrapped around each other, alone in the night. Most often, it was just for the touch of another person and not in...

Ecco: adesso la Luna mi parla. È un volto freddo e luminoso che galleggia là fuori nel buio, e queste sono le sue prime parole, un segnale limpido e sintetico di fredda, incontaminata intelligenza che...

They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave this place; they are this place; and it should be left to them....

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

«I love both her and them. I have come to understand that she is what they are. A woman accepts a man, expecting that he will change. A man takes a woman, expecting that she...

«Per la Dea Madre. Sergente, che cos’è mai quest’abominio?» chiese un fante. Avevano abbattuto uno dei robot indigeni, una specie di ragno cibernetico. Quel coso stava procedendo diritto come un missile verso la loro base,...

This must be Thursday,’ said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. ‘I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Kitty, do you have the bottle?” “In my purse. Which is in my room. Not that I think I can find my room from here.” “I’ll get it,” Martini said. He stood up and disappeared....

Air traffic control is going to have a steamy old fit on your dime, boy.They can get in line behind the police, the people whose cars we trashed, the Empire of Ob’enn, the Partnership Collective,...

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins — as do all worthy stories — with a goat

A refreshed mind is a creative and productive one

My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn’t that bad (I have a strong heart), it’s the sudden stops that are painful....

L’animale assomigliava a una lucertola, ma aveva le zampe più lunghe e leggermente palmate. Non erano adatte all’acqua, tutt’altro. L’evoluzione aveva imposto alle piccole creature di Haren dei canoni standard per poter navigare in quella...

I know who I am, and I’m being true to myself.

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country – a very different world – and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it...

ESPE: So, in both conversations, Lama Sangyay steers you away from thinking directly about Epifanio or your relationship (or lack thereof) and right into the nature of your mind. So masterful.CLARA: Isn’t he? I hate...

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature – something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can’t give it up. I can’t...

Outnumbered! Ya’ll are always the hell outnumbered!” – Marek, Gunship

…the magic was a tool, though a natural, mysterious tool. In its awareness of the magic, his human nature had desired to connect with it, to use it. The whisperings were the voice of his...

And now, we have no option. We can’t say ‘maybe’ ‘it’s possible’ ‘it looks very probable…’ No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is...

A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.

Come in.” The kid turned and walked toward the house. “I’ll help you if I can.” He paused, his brown eyes turned toward Stacy who now stood open-mouthed. “But you’ll have to do something for...

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

stupid” so as not to offend the ape community. Large of limb, impotent of intellect, he was the kind of guy who lettered in leg-breaking at thug school but flunked the written exam because he...

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

Look in Kego’s defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be...

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

Your mom said to say I could have just one peanut butter square but not til after they cool down.

People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing...

And then—what?—you graduate from Alice to Frodo to Darth?

The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear

It was also time to elect the president and VP of the OASIS User Council, but that was a no-brainer. Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were...

I knew that feeling, the sense of panic that stretched time, turning seconds into years, and the deep pain that came from being hurt by not one person but many, a gang of bullies that...

Issib wasn’t thrilled to see him. I’m busy and don’t need interruptions.” “This is the household library,” said Nafai. “This is where we always come to do research.” “See? You’re interrupting already.” “Look, I didn’t...

Three lights should be fine.” – Zachary”Aye, well if it wis me, I’d want a bloody lighthoose beacon comin’ oot o’ my arse.” – True MacDonald

Gaia giveth even as she taketh away.The warming of the global climate over the past century had melted permafrost and glaciers, shifted rainfall patterns, altered animal migratory routes, disrupted agriculture, drowned cities, and similarly necessitated...

He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi...

May the scribes record it.

From the first she showed a curious sensitivity to what, I suppose, may be called the ‘influences’ of the place. She said it ‘smelled’ of ghosts and warlocks.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher’s head

Mírame, princesa – pidió Ravn, sin dejar de mirarla-. Mira cómo te tomo por completo.Ella obedeció sin rechistar. Clavó sus zafiros ojos en él y sonrió. Sonrió como nunca antes lo había hecho, y Ravn...

What song would lull a snake into submission? “John Mayer?””Over my dead body.””Could be, Tim, could be.