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Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.

But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months.

Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been like if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust.

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

She said she promised her mother that she would never drink a drop of wine. That was the drop she never drank.

Christ and Buddha,

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness.

Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket.

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

Oriental marionette imitating an occidental gesture.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

[H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's.

On Earth, we'd just use glue, but here the only fluid was helium, which has lots of interesting properties, but is definitely not sticky.

Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt.

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

Perhaps all great loves are that, a secret that can't be shared.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

I'm not quite Machiavellian enough to set him up, but if he strays too close to the edge I might give him a nudge.

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Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

I watched her walk away and thought that if anybody could make a fighting suit look sexy, it'd be Sean. But even she couldn't.

different. Warmer.' He paused to let that soak

the Aleph-Null campaign.

Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was ... He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.

Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

Marianne, how's your statistics?" "Math is my worst subject." "But you can program?" "Of course. I'm not illiterate.

This world was no place for anyone with access to another.

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

But I remember another image from Earth: the rich dark green grass that grew in graveyards.

You can't make a date in death's dateless night.

Heterosexuality is considered an emotional dysfunction. Relatively easy to cure.

Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there.

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:
he never told me he was from another world:
I never told him I was from his future.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

That meant that he'd drunk too much too early, and had popped an Alcoterm to burn it off.