Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

The command to be free is a double bind

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.