We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.
One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.
Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.
I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.
No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?
When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different story. In my fiction I am more reckless. I don't care about the real world until I am done with the book.
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
To imagine yourself inside another person. . . is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.