A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it..

I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet..

A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your f….

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 's….

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen..

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing..

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly..

Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers..

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction..

Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it..

Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet..

Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloa….

Writing day and night for months… that’s hard..

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them..

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality..

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death..

There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think a….

Nothing's hopeless except never trying..

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a mo….

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do..

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction..