Spider Robinson

“Shared pain is lessened. Shared joy is increased. Thus we refute entropy.”

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”

“God is an imaginary friend for adults.”

“May you live as long as you want to, and want to as long as you live.”

“If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”

“The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.”

“Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.”

“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, it is a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”

“Life is a disease, sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”

“The function of a storyteller is to make my soul shiver.”

“Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.”

“A short-term benefit shouldn't be allowed to have a long-term cost.”

“A good pun is its own reword.”

“The purpose of life is to be happy. I don't care what they tell you. It's a cheap answer, but it's a good answer.”

“To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to others.”

“The worst curse in the world is to have all your dreams come true.”

“Sometimes the only way to find out what you're capable of is to tackle the impossible.”

“There is no force in a world of souls that is so powerful as the force of a shared dream.”

“There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.”

“All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.”