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Birthdate October 6, 1950

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Location Glendale, California

Country United States of America

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it`s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

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Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

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Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

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The village is coming back, like it or not.

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...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

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The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

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While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic or epic fantasy ever deal with the fundamental quandary of their novels . . . that so many of them take place in cultures that are rigid, hierarchical, stratified, and in essence oppressive? What is so appealing about feudalism, that so many free citizens of an educated commonwealth like ours love reading about and picturing life under hereditary lords?

Why should the deposed prince or princess in every clich

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