You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

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

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

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.

We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.