No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.