Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman..

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal..

But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of ….

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividl….

Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for….

It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that ….

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see ar….

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass pla….

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed..

It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfe….

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep..

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are..

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes..

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it t….

The truth is always multiplex..

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow..

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand..

I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really h….

The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated ….

The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates….

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive..