Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

The Planet drifts to random insect doom.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

Time is what death needs to grow people in.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.