Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.
Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.
Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
Ideas are useless unless used.
Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.
If you see a candidate that Washington embraces, run and hide.
Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
It's been over 15 years since I toured. . . over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.