The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

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.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.