Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.
To see the awful things is to see life as it really is. It makes you sharper, stronger, superior. You can stand it when others cannot.
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love comin...
I will learn by screwing up.
You seem to like helping, taking care of people, he said. That is admirable.You enjoy being nurtured?Well, that isn’t all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want me to gro...
Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, shoul...
Equal in law is not equal in nature.
They’re trying to understand what space is. That’s tough for them. They break distances down into concentrations of chemicals. For them, space is a range of taste intensities.
Robert’s problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.
You are what you leave behind.
When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.
Dogs could mellow a wild boy, or open up a shy one.
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,
We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know e...
Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.
Mother Nature is a bitch.
But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gam...
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.