They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

be careful of monsters with teeth

You must never be afraid to go there.

I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I read - and I don't need their criticism, what I need is my own - when I read it aloud, there is a flow, there is a poetry to it.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.