If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Charles Bukowski

The ends must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?

James Thurber

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

Channing Tatum

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

Jodi Picoult

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

Jackie Robinson

I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

Patrick Rothfuss

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie E. Eschenbach

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Tecumseh