Quotes from Robert Reed

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.

In Reagan's world, we have to be geared up to fight a foe that could barely feed its own people. And meanwhile, our real troubles have to be mocked. Global warming. Nuclear proliferation. Corrupt governments supported by my tax dollars and everyone's complacency.

even what seems stable and true skids upon a razor balanced upon another razor perched upon the thinnest, keenest slice of luck.

Things that are impossible usually take time.

I avoid opinions," Nissim said. "It's easier that way to accept both answers equally, and deny both of them at the same time. That's how I treat problems that I don't understand.

The monkey said, "Bad. Bad, shitty bad.

the endless easy joy that came with pissing into the morning sun.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Learning is Problem Solving and Problem Solving is Learning

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.