A Civilization Has The Ethics It Can

For Each Human Being There Is An Optimum Ratio Between Change And Stasis. Too Little Change, He Grows Bored. Too Little Stability, He Panics And Loses His Ability To Adapt. One Who Marries Six Times In Ten Years Won't Change Jobs. One Who Moves Often To Serve His Company Will Maintain A Stable Marriage. A Woman Chained To One Home And Family May Redecorate Frantically Or Take A Lover Or Go To Many Costume Parties.

The Brightest Minds In Our Field Have Been Trying To Find A Definition Of Science Fiction For These Past Seventy Years. The Short Answer Is, Science Fiction Stories Are Given As Possible, Not Necessarily Here And Now, But Somewhere, Sometime.

I Have A Kind Of Psychic Invisibility. As Long As I Can Stay Scared, I Can Keep People From Seeing Me. That's What We Have To Count On.

I Never Got Good At Predicting What Millions Of People Will Suddenly Decide Is Rational.

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.