Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.