Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them. Votes: 8
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat. Votes: 7
Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath? Could ever there be too much love?And could love require lies? Votes: 7
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better. Votes: 7
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet. Votes: 6
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. Votes: 6
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort. Votes: 5
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. Votes: 4
A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this. Votes: 4
Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing. Votes: 3
Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed! Votes: 3
Writing day and night for months ... that's hard. Votes: 3
I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet. Votes: 3
Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers. Votes: 3
Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it. Votes: 3
Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen. Votes: 3
A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it. Votes: 2
Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. Votes: 1
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. Votes: 0
I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do. Votes: 0
Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish.... Votes: 0
Never start a war with something you can't talk to. Votes: 0
Nothing's hopeless except never trying. Votes: 0
Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms. Votes: 0
If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. Votes: 0
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words  if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night  do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match? Votes: 0