Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies