Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
There is no way to stop. Writers go on writing long after it becomes financially unnecessary...because it hurts less to write than it does not to write.
The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
The only constant thing in these shifting, fairy-chess worlds is human love.
The depths of winter longing are ice within my heartThe shards of broken covenants lie sharp against my soulThe wraiths of long-lost ecstasy still keep us two apartThe amen winds of bitterness sill ke...
Take your time and do it right, even if it takes another half second.
Sovereign,’ like ‘love,’ means anything you want it to mean; it’s a word in dictionary between ‘sober’ and ‘sozzled.
Pay it forward.
Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.
Jill tried to reswallow her stomach.
I’ve been broke even oftener than I’ve been wealthy. Of the two, being broke is more interesting, as a man who doesn’t know where his next meal is coming from is never bored. He may be angry or severa...
I'm not feisty. But when you're as small as I am and female if you don't stand up for your rights, you're sure to be pushed around by big, hairy, smelly men with delusions about male superiority.
I wonder how harmless such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers?
I was just pulling your leg and it came off in my hand.
I pity the poverty of your wealth.
I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, Th...
Here’s to alcoholic brotherhood . . . much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
Everything and anything about a culture can be inferred from the shape of its language—and
Do you speak English? Certainly. And I understand American.