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 everything is crap.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

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

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

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

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.