There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?