I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.