An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

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

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.