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.

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.