I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.

You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.