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Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology.
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.
Pick something you love and work your ass off, no matter what people say.
The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.
Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.
We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.
It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.
intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.
I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?
If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.
Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.
Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.
You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.
The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.
Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.
A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.
It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.