There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.

- Theodore Sturgeon

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

- Theodore Sturgeon

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

- Theodore Sturgeon

Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, …

- Theodore Sturgeon

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

- Theodore Sturgeon

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

- Theodore Sturgeon

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

- Theodore Sturgeon

Writing is a communication.

- Theodore Sturgeon

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

- Theodore Sturgeon