Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

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

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

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

We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.

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.