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"Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy."
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"Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us."

"One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events."

"Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on."

"Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature."

"But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science."

"The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal."

"Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones."

"There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives."
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