One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.

Ursula K. LeGuin, from The Intro

Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

David Seabury

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and th

Samuel Johnson

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Oliver Cromwell

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Yuri Milner

Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity.

Skyla Madi

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

Kurt Vonnegut

One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.

Mahatma Gandhi

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Mark Twain