God is the creature, not the creator.
For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as re...
For our race to achieve the true satori, for us to move to that next level of consciousness and evolution that so many of our philosophies proclaim, all facets of human endeavor must become conscious...
Even in the still shadowed places, glowbirds nestled like Japanese lanterns above lighted walkways, glowing swingvines, and illuminated hanging bridges, while fireflies from Old Earth and radiant goss...
Even if it all fails, it was worth the time, Saul Laski said softly. The powerful have received their share of the world’s attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victims rem...
Duré smiled, obviously still puzzled. We all expected to triumph or die the first night, said the Consul. We hadn’t anticipated a long stay here. Brawne Lamia stood and brushed off her trousers. I’m g...
Don’t you see, Anthony? For all the evangelicals’ talk about this nation being founded on religious principles…this being a Christian nation and all…most of the Founding Fathers were like Jefferson…at...
Dad, said Rachel, I’m going to ask you a question I’ve asked about a million times since I was two. Do you believe in God? Sol had not smiled. He had no choice but to give her the answer he had given...
Clemens laughed until he began coughing again. Don’t you see, James? he said at last. You and I are only minor characters in this story about the Great Detective. Our little lives and endings mean not...
Can God play a significant game with his own creature? Can any creator, even a limited one, play a significant game with his own creature?
Black man invented plasma. Fellow named Charles Drew. I read somewhere that he bled to death after a car accident in the nineteen fifties because some cracker North Carolina hospital didn’t have any ‘...
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as...
Be assured, I do not suffer from a sense of humor.
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome’s faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized. Within
America, he thought, and not for the first time, is a nation with huge dreams and not infrequently the ability to realize them.
Agamemnon: Our prayer was simple — to raze Ilium’s walls to its roots, kill its heroes, rape its women, enslave its people. Is that too much to ask?
After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere – including the All Thing and all comm and access bands – simply ceased to be. Hund...
Admiral, said Gladstone, is it absolutely necessary to destroy the singularity sphere as soon as the Ousters have penetrated our cordon sanitaire? Couldn’t we wait another few minutes to judge their i...
According to Bishop Edouard, the College of Cardinals has elected someone below the rank of monsignor for the first time in the history of the Church. This says that the new Pope is a Jesuit priest … ...
Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right—in Abraham’s eyes and the hearts of his offspring—to become the God of Abraham.