Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.