Its hard to die. Harder to live
In the months since Challenger, Baedecker had found it hard to believe that the country had ever flown so frequently and competently into space. The long hiatus of earthbound doubt in which nothing fl...
If there really was a goddess like Sedna who ruled the world, her real name was Bitch Irony.
If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.
I nodded, understanding nothing.
I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.
Humanity had become as blasé about sharing their lives with potential AI monitoring as pre-Civil War Old Earth USA-southern families had been about speaking in front of their human slaves.
He wished he were home in Charleston, listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the stereo and reading Bruce Catton.
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.
Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
Когда имеешь дело с дураками, спустя какое-то время начинаешь понимать ход их мыслей.
That strange elasticity of the human heart in finding new relationships, new people to share one’s life with, new potentials.
Life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one’s word.
Androids do sleep,
[A lesser light asked Ummon Are there multiple futures> Ummon answered Does a dog have fleas>]
When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in i...
Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some l...