Spider Robinson

Spider Robinson
Spider Robinsonis an American-born Canadian Hugo Award- and Nebula Award-winning science fiction author...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 November 1948
CountryCanada
deserves god seems
Everyone deserves to die. God seems to think so.
entropy joy pain refute shared thus
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy
pain law joy
Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
life-is-short writing never-settle
…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest…everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok…
secret library world
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
indulge-in iron felons
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
pain giving joy
You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.
done like-you compliment
Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
pain joy
Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
honesty hard-work hard
honesty is hard work.
disguise
Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.
euphemism
Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
ends
A beginning is the end of something, always.
couple smart thinking
It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?