12 quotes
It takes a lot of people to hold civilization together; some of us are only here to ask the right questions.
N-Space (1990)
You don’t stop planning just because there’s no hope.
N-Space (1990)
Infantry, which means killing on foot and doesn’t have anything to do with children.
N-Space (1990)
There aren’t many prizes for second place in battle.
N-Space (1990)
A sapient species doesn’t reach space unless the members learn to cooperate. They’ll wreck the environment, one way or another, war or straight libertarianism or overbreeding.
N-Space (1990)
In fantasy, more than in other forms of literature, the obligation is to teach something universally true about the human condition.
N-Space (1990)
Heinlein spun off ideas at a terrific rate. Other writers picked them up…along with a distrust for arrogance combined with stupidity or ignorance, particularly in politicians.
N-Space (1990)
It doesn’t take brains to mate!
N-Space (1990)
Writing is, therefore, both a form of compulsive behavior and, I frequently tell people, a self-induced form of mental illness. Those few writers who don’t start off by being a little nuts soon get that way as a direct result of their vocation.
N-Space (1990)
Nuclear is the safest power source we’ve got—with two exceptions, neither of which is being built. If some folk are terrified of unseen death by radiation, then let ’em deal with their own neuroses, instead of forcing us to stop building the atomic plants.
N-Space (1990)
Casual murder, casual suicide, casual crime. Why not? If alternate universes are a reality, then cause and effect are an illusion. The law of averages is a fraud. You can do anything, and one of you will, or did.
N-Space (1990)
Collaborations are unnatural. The writer is a jealous god. He builds his universe without interference. He resents the carping of mentally deficient critics, and the editor’s capricious demands for revisions. Let two writers try to make one universe, and their defenses get in the way.
N-Space (1990)