The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.