Daniel Keys Moran Quotes
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It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
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There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.
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The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.
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Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.
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Police do not belong in war zones.
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You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
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Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
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Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
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The welfare system in the United States is vile.
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It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.
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To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.
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It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
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There are, believe it or not, good politicians.
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Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.
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You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.
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If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.
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The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.
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There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.
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The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.
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What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.
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I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.
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Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
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We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.