Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.