Hiamovi Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I receive fan mail. One of my favorite things to do is sit down and read the letters people write. It's really amazing the time people take to write these letters, tell their stories, draw pictures, etc. — Marisa Miller

Why should I put a bunch of Cadillacs on the ice, when I can sell out with a bunch of volkswagens — Harold Ballard

Later in the morning Saul tried to die. — Ray Bradbury

Hmmm ... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get. — Kate O'Brien

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub. — Henry Ward Beecher

The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff. — Charles Stross

The best stories proceed from a mysterious truth-seeking impulse that narrative has when revised extensively; they are complex and baffling and ambiguous; they tend to make us slower to act, rather than quicker. They make us more humble, cause us to empathize with people we don't know, because they help us imagine these people, and when we imagine them - if the storytelling is good enough - we imagine them as being, essentially, like us. If the story is poor, or has an agenda, if it comes out of a paucity of imagination or is rushed, we imagine those other people as essentially unlike us: unknowable, inscrutable, incontrovertible. — George Saunders

When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico, the desert sand turned to fused green glass. This fact, according to the magazine Free World, has given certain archaeologists a turn. They have been digging in the ancient Euphrates Valley and have uncovered a layer of agrarian culture 8,000 years old, and a layer of herdsman culture much older, and a still older caveman culture. Recently, they reached another layer, a layer of fused green glass — Maxwell Igan

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do. — Alex Berenson

Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997. — Leonard Lance

You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing. — Haruki Murakami

Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth. — Michael Swanwick