Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

True understanding is the spur of genius

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.