He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

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.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.