I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.