Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.

The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.