Wisdom

I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read booksand stories by bood writers. It's a hard thing to preach about. As Thelonious Monk once said abouthis field, 'Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

The quickest methods aren't always the fastest methods.

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the 'Arts and Lit non-fiction section)I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

No matter how much the woman is beautiful, she will lose her womanhood if she is dumb, arrogant or liar.

Titles does not make a man. But the grace of thanks.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

Science fiction is the arena of the not-yet, and every science fiction story has this element of not-yet-ness — usually a bit of technology or a scientific discovery that we don't know about in the real world of the present but that might be a possibility in the future.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

Accept advice from others and be sure they are positive before you set of to execute them.

Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.” “Every man?”“Yes,” he answered emphatically. ...“What is your weakness, Brodick?” she asked. “You.

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature.'It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

I have the power to multiplyLike all women, I am more than one.

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Good people won’t do bad to you if you hurt them. They’ll just be neutral and walk away, with experience and a lesson; and you’ll be left with well-wishers less one.

Good people won’t do bad to you if you hurt them. They’ll just be neutral and walk away, with experience and a lesson; and you’ll be left with well-wishers less one.