We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

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.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.