If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.