Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Withholding a decision is a decision.