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.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Thomas a Kempis

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

George Bernard Shaw

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

Albert Einstein

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Helen Keller

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they'd say, 'Oh she's so old,' and she's all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage, and I hope to be able to keep doing it as long as I can get away with it, yeah.

Geraldine Brooks

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

Ruth Stout

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Graham Greene

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Steve Wozniak

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

Theresa May

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Edward Dahlberg