And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.