I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.