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.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

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.

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.