An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

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.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

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

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

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