Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.