The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up