Everybody was talking and nobody was communicating. - Larry Niven

11) There is a time and place for tact. And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.

Ten thousand years wasn't enough...no lifetime was enough, unless you lived it in such a way as to make it enough.

Collaborations are unnatural. The writer is a jealous god. He builds his universe without interference. He resents the carping of mentally deficient critics, and the editor’s capricious demands for revisions. Let two writers try to make one universe, and their defenses get in the way.