Pierre Corneille

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.