The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.
Ethics change with technology.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.
The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.
In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Sometimes there's no point in giving up.
We learn only to ask more questions.
There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
Any damn fool can predict the past.
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
Never fire a laser at a mirror.
Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.
Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.
The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.
A civilization has the ethics it can afford
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