I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.