When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

The spirits of children are remote and wise...

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

The hourglass runs low.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.