They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.

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.

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That's my logic.

Whichever season you’re in, rejoice and celebrate your life as you might not experience it twice.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.

I don't give a damn what people think.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing.