Science Fictionisms, 16,...

"Why do most people think that their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?"
Poul Anderson

"If everything you know is wrong, then so are the scary parts, so relax."
Spider Robinson

"Warning to time travelers: To assume that the taboos of your native culture are "natural" and that you can't go too wrong by behaving by the rules your loving parents taught you is to risk death. Or worse. If you think death has no "worse", read history."
Robert A. Heinlein

"The worst thing that could happen to anybody would be not to be used for anything by anybody."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"Never be embarrassed by the things you cannot do. Be embarrassed by the things you can do and don't do well."
Len Wein

"In a healthy society, dissent is free and can be endured. If you think that a sex-ridden society, or a permissive society, or a think-as-you-please society is not healthy, you have but to try the kind of society in which unbridled repression sees to it that you think, write, say and do only what some dominating force says you may, and you will find out what an unhealthy society really is."
Isaac Asimov

"Nobody is ever ready for anything. If they were ready for it, there would be no point in living through it."
David Gerrold

"The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you."
Frank Herbert