We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy.
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
What do you possess if you possess not God?
To die is landing on some distant shore.