It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.

She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.

That excuse only works until you discover the person is merely an individual like any other.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing.

Any resemblance to real events, actual persons, or reality in general is entirely coincidental.

We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.

The dead are not always so dumb as you think, it takes much more to die than you would believe.