Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.


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We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of discipl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll ce...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
DIANE ARBUS
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
DIANE ACKERMAN
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a susta...
DIANE ARBUS
A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out th...
DIANE WARREN
I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.
DIANE KRUGER
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains u...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my so...
DIANE WARREN
I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it fe...
DIANE WARREN
I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
DIANE KRUGER
Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they te...
DIANE BLACK
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express em...
DIANE KRUGER
In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community ...
DIANE BLACK
I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so ma...
DIANE ACKERMAN
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark c...
DIANE ABBOTT
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that cele...
DIANE WAKOSKI
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we d...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergro...
DIANE ACKERMAN
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
DIANE RAVITCH
Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.
DIANE LANE
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind...
DIANE SETTERFIELD
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believ...
DIANE DUANE
With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No...
DIANE WOLKSTEIN
Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or to...
DIANE ACKERMAN
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
DIANE ARBUS
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
DIANE ARBUS
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and ha...
DIANE ARBUS
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about...
DIANE ARBUS
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lor...
DIANE ARBUS
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in bet...
DIANE ACKERMAN
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands th...
DIANE ARBUS
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
DIANE ACKERMAN
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together...
DIANE ACKERMAN