In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

Ethics change with technology.

Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.