'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Robert Lindner

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Ann Richards

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

Maya Angelou

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Octavia Butler

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Adam Hochschild

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

Jerry Pournelle

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

George Berkeley

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi

Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.

Joel Robuchon