Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-idiotic called science fiction. I think sf is a literature which by its very nature requires that you be at least a little sane, that you know at least a little something. You must abdicate the right to be ignorant in order to enjoy science fiction, which most people are unwilling to do; and you must learn, if not actually how to think things through, at least what the trick looks like when it's done. Frequent injections will keep a lot of madness away.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Just because all the rats are gone doesn't mean I trust the rattlesnake that got rid of them.