The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

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

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