Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation..

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening..

The invisible hand never picks up the check..

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently d….

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too ….

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart..

None of us know our real names..

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us..

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you)..

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation..

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did..

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again..

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever..

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we l….

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting..

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us..

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You a….