He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.