Was having someone else hunt and kill for you any different, morally, than doing it yourself, or was it worse because it removed you from the act while still requiring the kill?

The only thing that makes something impossible is ignorance.

If you don’t lose that fear of death, then you can never appreciate life or take the chances life gives you.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It’s too much like a busman’s holiday.

All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.

There are only three kinds of people in the universe, no matter what their race or form. They are scoundrels, hypocrites, and sheep.

It’s sometimes a blessing that great historical figures don’t live to see what people do to their visions.

Nothing done in love that harms no one can be perverse.

Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.

First, people don’t read novels off screens, and they don’t have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don’t retain anything physically for their money.