An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Writing is a communication.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

You'll never understand someone if you can't stop assuming you already know everything about them.

Literature that awakens and inflames feelings is the food of hearts.

Service standards create the standard of expectation that you and all team members follow when interacting with customers.

He had no ability to give up. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to quit, he couldn’t. It wasn’t in him. It never had been.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.