Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

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

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

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.