A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

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

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.