To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you.

Steve Maraboli

I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

Bob Hope

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

George Bernard Shaw

In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance.

John Perry Barlow

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ambrose Bierce

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Paul Wellstone

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Simon Newcomb

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

Jim Clyburn

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

Jay Inslee

Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.

J.K. Rowling

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Napoleon Bonaparte