Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
Our children change us... whether they live or not.
I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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