You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.