David Gerrold

"It was not an unfamiliar sensation, but it was strange to feel it in the daytime. Mostly, it was a nighttime visitor, an ever-gentle gnawing at the back of the head that had to be always guarded again…"

"Ah well—the boss didn’t have to know how to run the business. He only needed to know how to run the people who knew."

"Love isn't what you get. It's what you create."

"I’ve always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss."

"Now you see why I hate to leave my lab. It tires me out too much to have to do other people’s thinking for them."

"“You could call it that,” Auberson sighed. It wouldn’t be correct, but you could call it that."

"You aren’t really jumping through time, that’s the illusion; what you’re actually doing is leaving one timestream and jumping to—maybe even creating—another. The second one is identical to the one you…"

"Auberson’s first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack."