Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.

The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.