In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.
What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it’s rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
Man is an endangered species.
Man,” said Terl, “is an endangered species.
Come on now, laddie,” Dunneldeen said. “Just hold on and they’ll pull you up to the plane. ‘Tis a wee bit cold for a swim.
Life without her would be an endless succession of purposeless days lived with a heavy hopelessness.
Zzt motioned with the blaster barrel. ‘Why don’t you just walk out of here and have a nice crap.
My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I am finger worn to the second joint and then to hammer keys some more. To pile up copy, stack up stories, roll the wordage and generally conduct my life along the one line of success I have ever had. I write.
For whatever reason, efforts to improve oneself, to become happier in life, can become the subject of attacks. It is sometimes necessary to handle such directly. But there is a long-range handling that seldom fails. What, exactly, are such people trying to do to one? They are trying to reduce one downward.
A few years ago, I wrote Battlefield Earth to celebrate my golden anniversary as a writer. At nearly a half-million words, it was a bit larger than others I had turned out in my fifty-year career. But, after all, it was my anniversary so I decided to splurge.
When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don’t have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I noticed today there is a tendency to mingle them, and then excuse the result by calling it imaginative fiction. Actually they don’t mix well. Science Fiction, to be credible, has to be based on some degree of plausibility, Fantasy gives you no limits at all. Writing Science Fiction demands care on the part of the author, writing Fantasy is as easy as strolling in the park.
Freedom and ability can be seen to be somewhat synonymous.
In what can a person become entrapped? Ideas. Ideas of disability are first and foremost in entrapment.
Unless there is something to free men into, the act of freeing is simply a protest of slavery.
The government thinks the psychologists can keep the population under control.
Women find beauty in men only when they find strength; there’s something wrong with a woman when she falls in love with a fellow because he is pretty.
I know the world is an evil, capricious place and that men are basically bad and so, knowing that, I am always pleased to find some atom of goodness and only bored to see something evil.
He soured on life some seconds after he was born and has made a profession of deteriorating ever since.
The local IRS office lost about two million dollars in illegal collections they’d been getting.