Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.