Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

The day of the android has dawned.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?