The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.