The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

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.

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

Darkness bound them closer than light.

That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.