What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

I'd never been published when I was young.

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

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

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

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.