God help us for we knew the worst too young.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

You don't need a geochache for this one." "You don't, huh?" "Nope.. here I am. Here I am.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

It matters, like this: I belong to Malvern, you don't.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.