“All life is a rhythm, she said as I sat up. All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes.”

“In Arachnia as it is spoken on Nepiy, she is the pronoun for all sentient individuals of whatever species who have achieved the legal status of woman. The ancient, dimorphic form he, once used excl...”

“The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.”

“I dont know whether Asimov realized he was saying this as well, but as an old historical materialist, if only as an afterthought, he must have realized that he was saying too: No one here will ever...”

“But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if you're lucky, a doctor who has an unusual amount of sense-stranger than the hallucinations, or the ...”

“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is ...”

“Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once...”

“Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.”

“A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost.”

“I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.”