It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

All true wealth is biological.