I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'

In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.

What the deuce is to do now?

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.