SPIDER ROBINSON

Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

A beginning is the end of something, always.

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.

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

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

It's always coldest before the warm.

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?

We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.

You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

honesty is hard work.