Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.