Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.

Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.