Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work.

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

Everything in life is just for a while.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.