Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.