I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.