A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.