if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.