Whatever you do in life surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
John Wooden
A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince, but one is but an insect and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet but soon will and will change everything for everybody and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible never the impossible.
Ray Bradbury
None but blockheads copy each other.
William Blake
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin' check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
Eric Hoffer
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
