Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major